Judge Forces Trump To Pay New York AG $110,000

An appellate court this week ruled that Donald Trump cannot escape the more than $100,000 in contempt fees that he accrued by refusing to comply with court orders last year. Not only is that bad news for Trump's wallet, but it is bad news for some of his lawyers who are also trying to fight financial sanctions, along with Trump. Farron Cousins explains what's happening and the potential impacts. Link - https://www.rawstory.com/trump-letiti... Don't forget to like, comment, and share! And subscribe to stay connected! Connect with Farron on Twitter:   / farronbalanced   *This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos. This week an appellate court in the state of New York upheld Donald Trump's contempt fine of $110,000 that he has to pay to New York Attorney General Letitia James. Now, if you're a little hazy on the details of this story, remember last year, attorney general's office in New York subpoenaed Trump asked for all these documents, everything, and they gave her a little bit, but they didn't give her everything. So she had to repeatedly go back to court and say, listen, you are not complying. Can you please give us the things that were requesting? And they tried delay tactic after delay tactic. And ultimately the judge in the case got fed up with it was finding them what, $10,000 a day. They carried on for 11 days before they finally complied. The contempt fines ended, but he still had to pay the amount he accrued, which was $110,000. He then, of course, appealed that because that's all Donald Trump knows how to do when things don't go his way in court. And now the appellate court has said, no, dude, you, you owe that. The court imposed that fine on you for a specific reason. And the reason is because Trump pre judicially violated the lawful clear mandate of the court of which he had knowledge. And that's what they actually said in the ruling. Like, you did this and you did it intentionally, and you knew you couldn't do it, but you decided to do it anyway. So you gotta pay $110,000. But for a guy worth what he claims to be 10 billion and $110,000 is nothing. You can find that in the cushions of your couch right now. Here's why This story is actually even more important beyond the contempt charges in New York. It's not even charges, it's a fine. Donald Trump is currently facing sanctions in South Florida, along with his lawyer, Alina Haba. Those sanctions include roughly $1 million worth of payments and I think $176,000 directly to Hillary Clinton for filing the frivolous lawsuit against her. They have put a retainer out there of over a million dollars and told the judge, Hey, don't cash the check yet because we're gonna appeal this ruling. You know, we're gonna appeal the fines that you put in place. Now, granted its different jurisdictions. Granted, one of them is contempt, the other is a sanction. There is no reason to believe that that sanction appeal is not gonna go the same way that the New York contempt appeal went. And for the same reasons, the court issued an order in the case of New York, the order was turn over the documents. In the case of Florida, the court order was You cause these people lots of, uh, harm financially by filing a frivolous lawsuit that you knew was frivolous, you have to refund their legal fees. Now, I have not seen in my years of covering this, a judge's order for legal fees get overturned, especially when those legal fees come in the form of a sanction. That is something that happens quite frequently in the judicial system and it is not something that gets overturned. So Trump will likely not only have to pay the $110,000 to Letitia James, he's also, along with Alina haba gonna have to pay close to a million dollars for those sanctions in Florida. And again, that is for the very same reason. The court gave you an order, you chose to ignore it. In the case of New York, you chose to not want to comply with the sanctions in Florida. And ultimately it's just gonna cost you personally more legal fees for your lawyers to appeal it. And then you're still gonna end up having to pay those fines anyway. You're wasting your own money and time with this Donald. But if you're okay with that, I guess we are too, because in the end, you're not gonna escape either of these penalties.